This part of the article is true and not so true......
'The Xbox exists to stop the PlayStation brand from succeeding, and MS essentially stuck its big nose into an industry that it didn't really have any business getting involved with'
Microsoft did indeed make the xbox to stop Sony claiming the front room to itself. Not from games but from digtal downloads like movies, music on demand TV, shopping etc and knew Sony was well place to take advanage of all this. In turn Sony became a major threat to MS and MS had to do something to counter this.
But the other part 'MS essentially stuck its big nose into an industry' doesn't make sense. Sony did the same thing back in the 90's since then the industry has needed a new company to come in. If their was no Xbox... Sony's PS3 would still cost £500 and have limited online gaming etc...
The xbox has woken sony into new thinking. Sony must now think of what USA, European gamers needs instead of just japanese.
PC gaming rules.....
